Bravo Byrony Gordon - well said: Leave Chesney Hawkes alone – Christmas would be the poorer without these C-listers - Telegraph
Just who do they think they are? It’s not as if anything ever happens in Hastings – even the battle took place miles away – and they should be grateful to get a C-lister of such calibre. The good people of Aldershot had to make do with CBeebies “star” Katy Ashworth (no, me neither) switching on their Christmas lights, while in Hull they have the Chuckle Brothers appearing in Sleeping Beauty. And though it is easy to mock the likes of Chesney for having hair that was last styled in 1989, the humble
What has Chesney Hawkes ever done to the people of Hastings? Nothing, as it turns out, and that’s the problem. Though the one-hit wonder has kindly agreed to open the town’s Christmas market and ice rink next week, residents have complained that he is not famous enough and that he has no links to East Sussex. In protest, they are planning to welcome the singer – he had a number one with The One and Only way back in 1991 – with a “Go Away Chesney” protest. “Why couldn’t we have Mick Jagger?” asked one resident called Wendy.
Just who do they think they are? It’s not as if anything ever happens in Hastings – even the battle took place miles away – and they should be grateful to get a C-lister of such calibre. The good people of Aldershot had to make do with CBeebies “star” Katy Ashworth (no, me neither) switching on their Christmas lights, while in Hull they have the Chuckle Brothers appearing in Sleeping Beauty. And though it is easy to mock the likes of Chesney for having hair that was last styled in 1989, the humble
C-list celebrity performs an important social function that pompous twits on the A-list and B-list would never lower themselves to: dressing up as women in panto; standing in lashing rain to turn on Christmas lights; going into the Australian jungle and eating kangaroo bottoms.
We should give thanks for the rich seam of C-listers we have in this country, who are happy to plumb the depths of humiliation in order to make us feel better about our own futile existences. Whether it’s Les Dennis or Linda Lusardi, selfless C-listers do not take themselves too seriously and always have a smile on their faces even if they are reduced to opening nightclubs in Darlington for £50. In that way, they are the very embodiment of the British stiff upper-lip – doing what has to be done and not moaning.
So, as Lisa Riley waltzes through Strictly, and those brave souls on I’m a Celebrity prepare to leave the jungle in time for panto, perhaps the residents of Hastings should think a bit about their treatment of Chesney Hawkes. ’Tis the season to be a C-lister, after all – so let’s celebrate them, for the next month or so at least.
Just who do they think they are? It’s not as if anything ever happens in Hastings – even the battle took place miles away – and they should be grateful to get a C-lister of such calibre. The good people of Aldershot had to make do with CBeebies “star” Katy Ashworth (no, me neither) switching on their Christmas lights, while in Hull they have the Chuckle Brothers appearing in Sleeping Beauty. And though it is easy to mock the likes of Chesney for having hair that was last styled in 1989, the humble
What has Chesney Hawkes ever done to the people of Hastings? Nothing, as it turns out, and that’s the problem. Though the one-hit wonder has kindly agreed to open the town’s Christmas market and ice rink next week, residents have complained that he is not famous enough and that he has no links to East Sussex. In protest, they are planning to welcome the singer – he had a number one with The One and Only way back in 1991 – with a “Go Away Chesney” protest. “Why couldn’t we have Mick Jagger?” asked one resident called Wendy.
Just who do they think they are? It’s not as if anything ever happens in Hastings – even the battle took place miles away – and they should be grateful to get a C-lister of such calibre. The good people of Aldershot had to make do with CBeebies “star” Katy Ashworth (no, me neither) switching on their Christmas lights, while in Hull they have the Chuckle Brothers appearing in Sleeping Beauty. And though it is easy to mock the likes of Chesney for having hair that was last styled in 1989, the humble
C-list celebrity performs an important social function that pompous twits on the A-list and B-list would never lower themselves to: dressing up as women in panto; standing in lashing rain to turn on Christmas lights; going into the Australian jungle and eating kangaroo bottoms.
We should give thanks for the rich seam of C-listers we have in this country, who are happy to plumb the depths of humiliation in order to make us feel better about our own futile existences. Whether it’s Les Dennis or Linda Lusardi, selfless C-listers do not take themselves too seriously and always have a smile on their faces even if they are reduced to opening nightclubs in Darlington for £50. In that way, they are the very embodiment of the British stiff upper-lip – doing what has to be done and not moaning.
So, as Lisa Riley waltzes through Strictly, and those brave souls on I’m a Celebrity prepare to leave the jungle in time for panto, perhaps the residents of Hastings should think a bit about their treatment of Chesney Hawkes. ’Tis the season to be a C-lister, after all – so let’s celebrate them, for the next month or so at least.
